This paper deals with the sociocultural effects of mobile phones in Philippine
society. In particular it looks at how mobile phones have affected notions of identity and the
rise of the sexual subject. It also deals with the political possibilities and implication of this
new communicative technology in a society with previously poorly developed telephonic and
other communicative technologies. Mobile phones allow absent subjects to exercise a daily
presence in their communities of origin. This absent presence generates virtual subjects
interacting primarily via the mobile phone.

Publisher:

University of Jyväskylä, Agora Center

Date:

2005

Belongs to series:

Human Technology: An Interdisciplinary Journal on Humans in ICT Environments